LaCrosse, Washington
Palouse Falls
An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.
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LaCrosse, Washington
An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.
Brooklyn, New York
Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.
Montreal, Québec
This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.
Houston, Texas
A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.
Lumpkin, Georgia
Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.
St. Marys, Georgia
Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.
Lincoln, New Hampshire
Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.
Cedar Creek, Texas
A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.
Peach Springs, Arizona
One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.
Hope, British Columbia
Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.
Hebron, New Hampshire
This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.
Kyoto, Japan
Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.
Kudowa-Zdrój, Poland
The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.
Salt Lake City, Utah
The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.
Tokyo, Japan
Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.
Dzitnup, Mexico
These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.
Lichtenstein, Germany
A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.
Las Vegas, Nevada
The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.
Iwaizumi, Japan
A massive cave complex boasts some of the clearest water (and most charming bats) in the world.
Wicklow, Ireland
An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.
Datong, China
A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.
St. Augustine, Florida
A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.
Daniel Campos, Bolivia
A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.
Mono County, California
This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.